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Abstract
Neoplasms which arise from nerve sheaths formed by SCHWANN CELLS in the PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM or by OLIGODENDROCYTES in the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, NEUROFIBROMA, and NEURILEMMOMA are relatively common tumors in this category.
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- Neoplasms, Nerve Sheath
- Nerve Sheath Neoplasm
- Nerve Sheath Tumor
- Nerve Sheath Tumors
- Tumors of the Nerve Sheath
- Neoplasm, Nerve Sheath
- Sheath Tumor, Nerve
- Sheath Tumors, Nerve
- Tumor, Nerve Sheath
- Tumors, Nerve Sheath
- Nerve Sheath Tumors, Peripheral
- Perineurioma
- Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor
- Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
- Perineuriomas
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, blood supply, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, chemistry, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, secondary, surgery, therapy, ultrastructure, urine, veterinary, virology.
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neoplasms composed of myelin sheaths, NOT neoplasms located in myelin sheaths: coordinate IM with precoordinated organ/neoplasm term (IM)
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2006 (1994)
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- National Library of Medicine. Nerve Sheath Neoplasms. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018317. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018317
- Nerve Sheath Neoplasms. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_sheath_tumor
- Nerve Sheath Neoplasms. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11590740